Now Microsoft recently released their new management pack for SQL Server, which included new dashboard views for SQL administrators. Now this is nice and it gives a clear overview of the current configuration and what’s happening at the time. Now it supports most the SQL versions, except 2014 (yet…) Version 32-bit SQL Server on 32-bit …
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Dell introduced their new VRTX platform last year. For those who haven’t heard about VRTX it it was the start of fully-converged hardware solutions from Dell. Its a nifty piece of hardware which allows for up to 4 nodes and 25 harddrives to share midplane allowing for simultaions access to the storage. It is also …
One of the new features in Netscaler 10.5 is called Front-End optimization (which actually is part of Netscaler enterprise and +) which allows Netscaler to optimize the HTTP traffic which is headed back to the client. Now let us take a look at some of the different settings. Now first of we have the JavaScript …
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Now since the release of 10.5 I have been able to test alot of the new features in the latest release. Citrix has also released new versions of Insight and Endpoint clients for Windows & Mac to match the new release. The upgrades have so far for my part have been non-problematic (in case of …
Microsoft has recently released a document series which contain best practices for task sequences with Configuration Manager 2012 R2. This series goes trough a step-by-step in all the different steps in a task sequence. For all IT-pros working with task sequences I suggest taking a look at the document series here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43412 In other …
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A couple of days ago I was involved in a case where ICA sessions were suddenly disconnected and the users were unable to reconnect. The setup was a simple ICA-proxy access gateway using the latest build (126) and there were no error messages on the Storefront server. After involving Citrix support they recommended that we …
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So there has been some fuzz regarding the latest release of Netscaler 10.5 (also codename Tagma) which should been the death of Java GUI within Netscaler. Not quite there yet.. So what has Citrix improved / added in this feature ? Well it is quite a lot. Citrix states that they have added over 100 …
Well the title might be a bit misleading but its true! For those who haven’t seen the news yet, you can read about it here –> http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2014-06-24-dell-software-defined-storage-portfolio Now a little background story here, Nutanix has been in the market with its hardware based appliances in about a year/two years or so now. The appliances are …
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So as of today, Azure Active Directory Premium is available in trial for all users. For those that aren’t aware of what Azure Active Directory Premium is in short Identity and Access Management for the cloud so its a extension of the previous features which include, * custom domains * users and groups * directory …
So its the time of year again and my summer holiday is starting, therefore there will be little news here for the next month. On the other hand, I received news yesterday that I passed my CCI networking assesment and am now able to do Netscaler training courses. So on the next months ahead, my …
